Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…

Yo, so Hercules basically flattened Antaeus, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: flatten · To what, where: Antaeus

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2053 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the Giant off the ground and wins, then the Pygmies plan revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 flattened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 flattened	advmod
4	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flattened	nsubj
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 flattened	advmod
6	flattened	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flattened	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flattened	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	6 flattened	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 flattened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatten	past	Hercules	Antaeus				basically property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antaeus=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he lifted him off the ground and he got weak.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lifted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
12	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	he	him = he		the ground			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme off ground=Destination
2	get	past	he					weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, he just lifted him and he got sleepy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lifted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lifted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 lifted	advmod
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lifted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lifted	conj
10	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lifted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	he	him = he					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	get	past	he					sleepy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yep, totally flattened him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 flattened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 flattened	advmod
4	flattened	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flattened	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flattened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flatten	past		him = he				totally property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he picked him up and he got tired.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	he	him = he					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	get	past	he					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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